Social Psychology Quiz

True or False: In the early 60s, Stanley Milgram found that most people would administer a lethal electric shock to someone if they were ordered to do so.

TrueCorrect.... ⅔ of participants administered a 450 volt shock when ordered to do so. Find out more here: http://psychmuseum.uwgb.org/social/milgram/

FalseIncorrect.... ⅔ of participants administered a 450 volt shock when ordered to do so. Find out more here: http://psychmuseum.uwgb.org/social/milgram/

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According to Zimbardo regarding the findings from the Stanford Prison Experiment, guards behaved aggressively because of:

Their personalitiesIncorrect.... The participants were placed as either a prisoner or guard based on coin flip so personality types would have been randomly distributed to both groups. Learn more here: http://psychmuseum.uwgb.org/social/stanfordprison/

Their uniformsIncorrect.... The uniform may have had something to do with it (because it's related to the correct answer), but there's a better answer. Learn more here: http://psychmuseum.uwgb.org/social/stanfordprison/

The environmentGood job! The participants were placed as either a prisoner or guard based on coin flip so personality types would have been randomly distributed to both groups. Learn more here: http://psychmuseum.uwgb.org/social/stanfordprison/

They were told to be aggressiveYou're thinking of a different study where people were told to administer a lethal electric shock. Learn more here: http://psychmuseum.uwgb.org/social/stanfordprison/

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Solomon Asch’s line experiment found that approximately ⅓ of college students would:

Give a correct answer even though everyone else in the room gave the wrong answer.The good news is that more than 1/3 of participants still gave the correct answer when everyone else gave the wrong one. Learn more at: http://psychmuseum.uwgb.org/social/conformity/

Give an obviously wrong answer just because the others in the room did.Good job. Regretably, 32% of college-age participants gave an obviously wrong answer when the others in the room gave that answer first.
Learn more at: http://psychmuseum.uwgb.org/social/conformity/

Give an obviously wrong answer when everyone else gave the correct answer just because they wanted to be different.Nope. If everyone else gave the correct answer, they gave the correct answer too. Learn more at: http://psychmuseum.uwgb.org/social/conformity/